Zingg, Gérard

(June 7, 1942, Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France - )

   The grandson of French painter Jules-Emile Zingg, he was trained at the Sciences Po. He played competitive sports before entering films as a co-screenwriter (1969 Ternos caçadores / Sweet Hunters / Tendres Chasseurs / Jailbird, Ruy Guerra, Brazil / France; 1981 L'Année prochaine . . . si tout va bien / UK and USA: Next Year If All Goes Well, also technical adviser, Jean-Loup Hubert; Histoires extraordinaires, TV, episode "La Lettre volée", Ruy Guerra; 2008 Lucifer et Moi, Jacques Grand-Jouan) and assistant director (1974 Les Valseuses / UK: Getting It Up / USA: Going Places, Bertrand Blier). He also supervised the dub­bing and co-wrote the dialogue of Marco Ferreri's La Dernière Femme / L'ultima donna / UK and USA: The Last Woman (France / Italy, 1976). He had previously played the Norman clerk Jean Lohier in Robert Bres­son's Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc / UK and USA: Trial of Joan of Arc (1963, shot in 1961). After being technical adviser to Virginie Thévenet (1985 La Nuit Porte-Jarretelles) and Radovan Tadic (1990 Erreur de Jeu­nesse, shot in 1988) and the commercial failure of his two feature movies, he devoted himself to painting for fifteen years. He also published several books (1995 L'Heure du Loup; 1999 Loup, où es-tu?, Editions Humus Dumerchez) and appeared as himself in a TV documentary (2007 Dominique Laffin, Portrait d'une Enfant pas sage, Laurent Perrin).

 Filmography

1971 ◘ La Quille, Bon Dieu! (short; also co-screenwriter)

1977 ◘ La Nuit tous les Chats sont gris (also co-screenwriter)

1988 ◘ Ada dans la Jungle (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)